ICA Boston - Diller Scofidio + Renfro
The Institute of Contemporary Art faces Boston harbor in the Seaport District. Designed by Diller Scofido + Renfro, it was completed in 2006 and extends the boardwalk along the harbor.
The building is organized as a series of public zones stacked on each other. Outdoor amphitheater seating facing the harbor leads up to a 330 seat theater that sits below the top floor gallery. The media center with stepped seating faces the harbor and gives visitors access to the collection. The floors are connected by a glass elevator and an open stair.
There lots of great places nearby to eat including Sportello, Honeygrow and the Tatte Cafe.
The ICA makes visible its organization in its section where the form and experience come alive.
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A view of Boston Harbor from the new Mediatheque at the ICA in Boston, MA.
The Diller Scofido + Renfro designed museum is the newest addition to Boston's modern architecture. The Poss Family Mediatheque provides a dramatic, horizonless view of Boston Harbor, as well as 18 computer stations where you can explore an ever-expanding amount of media providing context and deepening your understanding of contemporary art. Introduce yourself to the artists exhibited in the galleries. Explore key concepts in contemporary art. Select from a remarkable archive of footage that captures past exhibitions.
The view from the Mediatheque of Boston Bay is magnificent.
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It was prohibited to use a camera inside the museum, so I recorded this one in the parking lot.
When Home Won't Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art | ICA/Boston
The exhibition When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art, on view Oct 23, 2019–Jan 26, 2020 at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, considers how contemporary artists are responding to the migration, immigration, and displacement of peoples today. The exhibition borrows its title, with permission, from a poem by Warsan Shire, a Somali-British poet who gives voice to the experiences of refugees. Through artworks made since 2000 by twenty artists from more than a dozen countries — including Colombia, Cuba, France, India, Iraq, Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, Palestine, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the United States — this exhibition highlights diverse artistic responses to migration ranging from personal accounts to poetic meditations, and features a range of mediums, including sculpture, installation, painting, and video.
Artists in the exhibition include Kader Attia, Tania Bruguera, Isaac Julien, Hayv Kahraman, Reena Saini Kallat, Richard Mosse, Carlos Motta, Yinka Shonibare, Xaviera Simmons, and Do-Ho Suh, among others. A fully illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition, with an essay by Eva Respini and Ruth Erickson and texts by prominent scholars Aruna D’Souza, Okwui Enwezor, Thomas Keenan, Peggy Levitt, and Uday Singh Mehta, among others.
Snow Day in Boston, Harvard Square blizzard, Cambridge, MA
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Enjoy the blizzard without leaving the comfort of your room! Sit back, switch this video to HD, just watch the snow fall and chill out. This was taken at around 3 pm on Feb 8th 2013. It is the early stages of the storm. All public transportation shuts down at 3:30pm that day.
Harvard Square is a large triangular area in the center of Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue, Brattle Street, and John F. Kennedy Street. It is the historic center of Cambridge.[2] Adjacent to Harvard Yard, the historic heart of Harvard University,[3] the Square (as it is sometimes called locally) functions as a commercial center for Harvard students, as well as residents of western Cambridge and the inner western and northern suburbs of Boston. These residents use the Harvard station, a major MBTA Red Line subway and bus transportation hub.
In an extended sense, the name Harvard Square can also refer to the entire neighborhood surrounding this intersection for several blocks in each direction. The nearby Cambridge Common has become a park area with a playground, baseball field, and a number of monuments, several relating to the Revolutionary War.
At the center of the Square is the old Harvard Square Subway Kiosk, now a newsstand, Out of Town News, stocking newspapers and magazines from around the world. A video of it appears in transitional clips used on CNN. A public motion art installation, Lumen Eclipse, has been introduced at the Tourist Information Booth showing monthly exhibitions of local, national and international artists.
In the southwest area of the Square neighborhood, on Mount Auburn St, stands the Igor Fokin Memorial.This memorial, created by sculptor Konstantin Simun, pays tribute not only to the late beloved puppeteer, but to all street performers that are an integral part of the square, especially during summer months.
A blizzard is a severe snowstorm characterized by strong sustained winds of at least 56 km/h (35 mph) and low temperatures lasting for a prolonged period of time — typically three hours or more. A severe blizzard has winds over 72 km/h (45 mph), near zero visibility, and temperatures of −12 °C (10 °F) or lower. Technically, the difference between a blizzard and a snowstorm is not the amount of snow but the strength of the wind.
A blizzard is a severe snowstorm characterized by strong winds and low temperatures. The difference between a blizzard and a snowstorm is the strength of the wind. To be a blizzard, a snow storm must have sustained winds or frequent gusts that are greater than or equal to 56 km/h (35 mph) with blowing or drifting snow which reduces visibility to 400 meters or a quarter mile or less and must last for a prolonged period of time — typically three hours or more.[1] Snowfall amounts do not have to be significant. In Australia the definition requires that at least some snow has been raised from the ground.
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ICA Boston - 3D Renderings
Final rendering presentaion for Vis III class created with Rhino 4, Flamingo, & Bongo
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Visiting Boston in October
Ellie wanted to go around Boston as one of her birthday gifts this year. We enjoyed eating delicious foods and seeing some of the Head of the Charles Regatta, the Institute for Contemporary Art, and the Boston Common and Public Garden area, as well as shops along Newbury Street. We used a one day unlimited Subway pass.
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Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, established 1636, whose history, influence and wealth have made it one of the most prestigious universities in the world.
Established originally by the Massachusetts legislature and soon thereafter named for John Harvard (its first benefactor), Harvard is the United States' oldest institution of higher learning, and the Harvard Corporation (formally, the President and Fellows of Harvard College) is its first chartered corporation. Although never formally affiliated with any denomination, the early College primarily trained Congregationalist and Unitarian clergy. Its curriculum and student body were gradually secularized during the 18th century, and by the 19th century Harvard had emerged as the central cultural establishment among Boston elites. Following the American Civil War, President Charles W. Eliot's long tenure (1869–1909) transformed the college and affiliated professional schools into a modern research university; Harvard was a founding member of the Association of American Universities in 1900. James Bryant Conant led the university through the Great Depression and World War II and began to reform the curriculum and liberalize admissions after the war. The undergraduate college became coeducational after its 1977 merger with Radcliffe College.
The University is organized into eleven separate academic units—ten faculties and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study—with campuses throughout the Boston metropolitan area: its 209-acre (85 ha) main campus is centered on Harvard Yard in Cambridge, approximately 3 miles (5 km) northwest of Boston; the business school and athletics facilities, including Harvard Stadium, are located across the Charles River in the Allston neighborhood of Boston and the medical, dental, and public health schools are in the Longwood Medical Area. Harvard has the largest financial endowment of any academic institution in the world, standing at $36.4 billion.
Harvard is a large, highly residential research university. The nominal cost of attendance is high, but the University's large endowment allows it to offer generous financial aid packages. It operates several arts, cultural, and scientific museums, alongside the Harvard Library, which is the world's largest academic and private library system, comprising 79 individual libraries with over 18 million volumes. Harvard's alumni include eight U.S. presidents, several foreign heads of state, 62 living billionaires, 335 Rhodes Scholars, and 242 Marshall Scholars. To date, some 150 Nobel laureates and 5 Fields Medalists (when awarded) have been affiliated as students, faculty, or staff.
Harvard University is a private institution that was founded in 1636. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 6,694, its setting is urban, and the campus size is 5,076 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. Harvard University’s ranking in the 2016 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, 2. Its tuition and fees are $45,278 (2015-16).
Harvard is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, just outside ofBoston. Harvard’s extensive library system houses the oldest collection in the United States and the largest private collection in the world. There is more to the school than endless stacks, though: Harvard’s athletic teams compete in the Ivy League, and every football season ends with “The Game,” an annual matchup between storied rivals Harvard and Yale. At Harvard, on-campus residential housing is an integral part of student life. Freshmen live around the Harvard Yard at the center of campus, after which they are placed in one of 12 undergraduate houses for their remaining three years.
In addition to the College, Harvard is made up of 13 other schools and institutes, including the top-ranked Business School andMedical School and the highly ranked Graduate Education School,School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Law School and John F. Kennedy School of Government. Eight U.S. presidents graduated from Harvard College, including Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy. Other notable alumni include Henry David Thoreau, Helen Keller, Yo-Yo Ma and Tommy Lee Jones. In 1977, Harvard signed an agreement with sister institute Radcliffe College, uniting them in an educational partnership serving male and female students, although they did not officially merge until 1999. Harvard also has the largest endowment of any school in the world.
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Contemporary Art Globally Speaking - Os Gemeos Exhibition - ICA Boston
The twin street artists brothers from Brazil have their first solo exhibition in the United States right now at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, Massachusetts. It is delightful, fun, colorful, awe inspiring and street art that will make your heart sing. A must see exhibition! icaboston.org
Aspire: Five-Week Music Performance Intensive | The Parent Perspective
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“Without any question, it’s the best program available.” In this video, parents explain how Berklee’s Aspire: Five-Week Music Performance Intensive has helped their children “grow and blossom” through intensive study in college-level classes with the actual music professors who teach at Berklee - all while earning college credit that helps offset the cost of the program. Next summer, will you be the one remarking that your child has “grown a lot as a person — and as a musician” during Five-Week?
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Berklee Summer Programs will give you a taste of Berklee—the preeminent institute of contemporary music and the performing arts—on the stage and in the classroom. Whether you are in middle school, high school, college, or beyond, there is a Berklee summer program in music, theater, and/or dance for you. You’ll enjoy access to Berklee’s state-of-the-art facilities as you learn from faculty who are the very best at what they do, joined by students who share your passion from all over the United States and more than 70 countries around the world. You’ll also learn from special guest clinicians. These have previously included chart-topping singer Charlie Puth; Beyoncé background vocalist Crissy Collins; Broadway musical theater veteran Nick Adams; Megadeth bassist Dave Ellefson; and organist Cory Henry of Grammy-winning jazz fusion group Snarky Puppy. Whether you study with Berklee in Boston, Massachusetts, Valencia, Spain, or beyond, you’ll leave inspired, transformed, and equipped to turn your creative spark into a fire.
Berklee summer programs have served as a launching pad for many students who have gone on to successful careers in the arts, including household names like Meghan Trainor, John Mayer, Robert Glasper, and Daniel Platzman of Imagine Dragons. We invite you to explore Berklee’s many summer program offerings to find the program that’s right for you at berklee.edu/summer
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The Boston Seaport | Architecture, Pedestrians and Wind
The video features wind simulations by SimScale, a revolutionary cloud-based simulation platform for FEA, thermal and CFD simulation.
The video is about the Boston Seaport and Architecture, pedestrians and wind. Fort Point Channel separates the seaport from downtown Boston. Thousands of people a day cross from one location to the other for work and recreation. The architecture of the Boston Seaport District is much like any other metropolitan city with parks, restaurants, museums, hotels, and a convention center. What’s unique about the area is the wind. It’s easy for architects and engineers to think about stuff in their wheelhouse like aesthetics or structural conditions. But what about how a new building impacts how a person feels walking through the city, standing outside a building or simply waiting on the street corner for an Uber? The Boston Seaport is exposed to the Boston Main channel and thus get strong winds from the North West that commonly reach 34mph or more. In order to show the real impact of wind for pedestrians a wind speed analysis (assuming 31mph on average) was shared with me by my friends at Simscale. This video shows wind velocity distribution at pedestrian level. The three bridges at the north of fort point channel used by automobiles and pedestrians alike experience wind at nearly free stream velocity due to the absence of any physical barriers. This video shows velocity contours together with velocity vectors. The smaller arrows represent lower wind speeds, and the bigger ones represent higher. You can see that the Rockland Trust Bank Pavilion, at the upper left of this image, is exposed to direct wind. This creates a fresh breeze in the summer (about 18mph. A similar condition also occurs at the Institute of Contemporary Art further north. This video shows velocity streamlines at pedestrian level through the use of fine curved lines and color. Notice the instantaneous gust of wind directly in front of this building caused by converging wind patterns further North and East. This next video shows velocity streamlines in plan view. It highlights phenomena like the Venturi Effect (not Robert Venturi) where wind is squeezed between buildings and accelerates. This happens just behind the Contemporary Art Museum, along Norther Ave and Seaport Blvd. Spiraling Vortices of wind are noticeable at various locations in the video as wind is recirculated or spins off the edge of buildings. In this video you can see how the taller mor,e dense architectural areas at the top of the video block wind flow which generally creates more pedestrian comfort downstream. This video shows a vertical velocity contour and highlights how wind travels over building starting at the Northern end of the Seaport district. This can be valuable in measuring wind downwash over the top of buildings. And in this final series of videos you can see the velocity distribution of wind from the North. Using what’s called a volumetric filter the video shows airflow from a strong breeze (22-30mph) to a moderate gale (30-38mph). Instantaneous gusts of wind of about 33 mph, which can be quite unpleasant to pedestrians, are clear on both Congress Street and Seaport Blvd. So as you can see building design isn’t just about aesthetics or structure, but rather, the impact they have to the physical feel of an environment. The wind analysis videos that make this clear were made by SimScale. SimScale is the market leader in cloud-based engineering simulation. They have 150,000 users worldwide! Simscale is a simulation tool for FEA, CFD and thermal analysis. The website and software they feature enables engineers and architects to run complex simulations and test their designs in minutes. And that’s good for large or small companies that might otherwise never afford to do so. Companies like WSP, Thornton Tomasetti, ARUP, POWER engineers and more use Simscale. All you have to do is sign up and upload your model with a free community account and you’re good to go! Just see the links below in the description box for more.
Exploring Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Boston 4K - Seaport District - Driving Downtown
Saturday afternoon drive around the Seaport District, orSouth Boston Waterfront.
The new home to General Electric (GE) corporate headquarters and global athletic footwear and apparel company Reebok. In a massive renaissance, the area has seen an enormous construction boom in recent years; considered the hottest, fastest-growing real estate market in the country. A two-bedroom apartment can rent for more than $5,000 per month and the purchase cost would be more than $2 million in 2018.
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This section of South Boston north has been targeted for massive redevelopment. The Fallon Company is currently developing Boston’s Fan Pier, one of the most sought-after waterfront sites in the United States, and a catalyst for the revitalization of South Boston’s waterfront. Fan Pier is a nine-acre, 21 city block site which consisted largely of underutilized parking lots when the Fallon Company purchased it for $115 million in 2005. Today, it is a neighborhood consisting of four commercial towers – One Marina Park Drive, 11 Fan Pier Boulevard, 50 Northern Avenue, and 100 Northern Avenue – and a luxury condominium tower Twenty Two Liberty. A second residential building, Fifty Liberty, is currently under construction. Two more high-rise towers are planned. When complete in 2020, the $4 billion Fan Pier project will encompass three million square feet of commercial and residential real estate, public, civic and cultural space, including two parks and a 6-acre marina.
According to the Boston Seaport website, the Seaport/South Boston Waterfront has 78 restaurants, 8 hotels, and continues to grow. The Boston Convention and Exhibition Center straddles D Street. The Seaport Hotel and Seaport World Trade Center is located on Commonwealth Pier. A new home for the Institute of Contemporary Art hangs over Boston Harbor just north of Northern Avenue. The Society of Arts and Crafts, New England’s oldest craft-focused nonprofit is situated closeby on Pier 4. The John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse is on Fan Pier. The South Boston Waterfront, or The Seaport, in a massive renaissance, has exploded in recent years; considered the hottest, fastest-growing real estate market in the country, the Waterfront has seen an enormous construction boom. The Innovation District, as ex-mayor Tom Menino termed it, is now home to tens of new office towers, residential buildings, and innovation labs either proposed or under construction. As of September 2010, the Seaport Square project was also under planning. It was expected to cost $3 billion and replace parking lots between the federal courthouse and convention center with a 6,300,000-square-foot (590,000 m2) mixed-use development. Construction was expected to begin in 2011.
Due to the increase in nightlife in the neighborhood, on-street parking for residents has become increasingly scarce. In response, city officials are launching a 90-day pilot program that will expand resident only parking to seven days a week, from four.
On January 13, 2016, it was announced that GE will be moving its corporate headquarters from Fairfield, Connecticut to the South Boston Waterfront. GE ranks eighth on the Fortune 500 and will become the largest publicly traded company based in Massachusetts.
According to the Boston Globe, a two-bedroom apartment in the Seaport area can rent for more than $5,000 per month and the purchase cost would be more than $2 million in 2018.
In November 2016, the global athletic footwear and apparel company Reebok announced they would be moving their headquarters from the Boston suburb of Canton to the innovation and design building in the seaport district of South Boston. The reasons for the move, according to the company, is to be located in an urban environment that is more desirable to millennial workers and to “clarify the roles” of United States offices. The move was completed in the fall of 2018.
South Boston is a densely populated neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. South Boston, most popularly known as Southie, was once a predominantly working class Irish Catholic community, but has become increasingly desirable among young professionals. South Boston has undergone gentrification, and consequently, its real estate market has seen property values join the highest in the city.
Building Brave Spaces: Mobilizing Teen Arts Education – Reimagining Learning | ICA/Boston
On November 2-4, 2018, the ICA hosted Building Brave Spaces: Mobilizing Teen Arts Education, an unprecedented gathering to reflect and build upon the knowledge and field-wide progress made in teen arts education over the past decade. Functioning as a catalyst, this event served as a forum for collaboration and understanding across institutions, generations, and geographies. Through keynote sessions, workshops, and panels this conference addressed three key areas: what we know about the impact of arts education on teens; innovative programs that museums are doing and the leadership required; and how to mobilize a broader field.
This video includes the Main Stage session Reimagining Learning, which took place at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston's Barbara Lee Family Foundation Theater on Saturday, November 3, 2018. The program includes:
· Introductions by Anthony Barrows, Managing Director at ideas42 and Conference Advisory Group Member & Karla Diaz, Artist, Co-founder of Slanguage, and Conference Advisory Group Member
· Turahn Dorsey, Chief of Education for the City of Boston
· Patricia Frazier, Filmmaker, Activist, Student, and 2018 National Youth Poet Laureate of the United States, a program founded by Urban Word
Note: This video contains some mature language.
ICA Forum: Representation and Responsibility in Creative Spaces | ICA Boston
Within social, political, and cultural arenas, issues of representation—the act of depicting and/or speaking on behalf of someone—and responsibility have come into even sharper focus in recent months. These issues, surfacing in the commentary surrounding the leadership of the Women’s March, contentious government elections, speeches by literary figures, and calls for the removal of artworks in museums, proliferate news and social media feeds as communities try to make sense of it all in a new era of rapid consumption of information. Within the arts, important questions are being raised, primarily: who gets to represent whom in art? Presented by Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research and the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston on September 28, 2017.
Moderated by Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Professor of History, Race, and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School. Muhammad is the author of The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America and former Director of New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Panelists include:
Camilo Alvarez, Owner, Director, and Preparator at Samsøñ, formerly Samson Projects, founded in 2004
Nikki A. Greene, Assistant Professor of the Arts of Africa and the African Diaspora at Wellesley College and Visual Arts Editor of Transition, a publication of the Hutchins Center at Harvard University
Eva Respini, Barbara Lee Chief Curator at the ICA
Sheida Soleimani, Artist and Lecturer at Brandeis University and Rhode Island School of Art and Design
MFA and ICA directors talk contemporary art
(Boston Globe) Arts reporter Geoff Edgers talks contemporary art with MFA director Malcolm Rogers and ICA director Jill Medvedow. Produced by Lauren Frohne/Globe Staff
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